Alanis Morissette

I found that the more truthful and vulnerable I was, the more empowering it was for me.

To me the biggest irony of this lifetime that I’m living is that for someone who thrives in the public eye in the creative ways that I do, I actually don’t enjoy being in the public eye.

I felt like I was making a record under the radar, and that is my favorite way to do anything.

As long as I can say what it is that I need to say, then I’ll fit whatever I’m trying to say around a melody.

At some point, I would like to write a book and other things, but I work best when there is some sort of deadline in my own mind, but not when fifty people or fifty million people are breathing down the back of my neck.

When I start writing songs and it turns into an overly belabored intellectual process, I just throw it out.

There is no need to be afraid of having faults, because knowing we have them can help us to improve.

Be so good they can’t ignore you.

You cannot push anyone up the ladder unless he is willing to climb.

Yes, it’s absolutely true that anything worth doing is worth doing poorly – until you can learn to do it well.

The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.

All for ourselves, and nothing for other people, seems, in every age of the world, to have been the vile maxim of the masters of mankind.

Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.

Every sale has five basic obstacles: no need, no money, no hurry, no desire, no trust.

The real risk is doing nothing.

You were designed for accomplishment, engineered for success, and endowed with the seeds of greatness.

It is in self-limitation that a master first shows himself.

Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later.

Among the things you can give and still keep are your word, a smile, and a grateful heart.

All young people, regardless of sexual orientation or identity, deserve a safe and supportive environment in which to achieve their full potential.

Only men of character are trusted.